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National and international competition demands companies to sell products with maximum value for the customer, which is reflected by high functionality for low costs. Approaches in cost management like value engineering and target costing support practitioners in developing valuable products and to reduce costs. The relatively new approach of integrated value engineering (IVE) uses matrices to combine...
Manufacturing firms (MF) rethought their concept of cooperation and concentrated on their core competences, while outsourcing a significant share of their value creation to suppliers. As a result, the supply chain network (SCN) performance has become a driver of a firms' competitive ability. The different dimensions of complexity challenge MFs while designing their SCN for a certain product. The supplier...
The dynamic and inter-connected nature of the current day business environment has transformed the supply chain of any enterprise into a highly complex system. However, the increased complexity of the supply chain has also made it more risk-prone. This paper presents a supply chain model for use-oriented product-service systems and proposes a complexity driven approach that deploys multiple domain...
Innovation processes are subject to external and internal cycles. Changes in the business environment such as shifting market requirements, technological advances and macroeconomic cycles represent interdependent factors which have a significant influence on the innovation process. Furthermore there is a trend towards offering integrated products and services, so-called product-service systems (PSS)...
Product piracy is a serious threat for original manufacturers. To protect oneself from being counterfeited and its negative effects, companies can apply collections of measures provided by research institutes and corporations. Furthermore, an unclear range of procedures and tools has been established for selecting and combining single measures into an effective protection concept for the individual...
Answering the competitive pressure, companies from the field of customer and capital goods significantly reduce their in-house production depth in favor of a higher involvement of suppliers. As a result, a company's success is dependent of the performance of their supply chain. The selection of suppliers is supported by several methods, which focus on operative decisions, but neglect the influence...
Innovation processes of technical products underlie dynamic company internal and external influencing factors, which require a high degree of flexibility. Part of this flexibility is an adaptive behavior towards technical changes, in general within development as well as within production. These cycles of adaptations and changes necessitate an active coordination of information flows between the relevant...
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